Schofield, Martha 1839-1916
Biographical notes:
Martha Schofield was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pa. who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S.C., in 1868 to provide education for freed slaves. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young African-Americans in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks Co., Pa. She was the daughter of Oliver W. Schofield and Mary (Jackson) Schofield. Both of her parents were involved in reform activities, including abolition, temperance, women's rights, and education. She died Feb. 1, 1916.
From the description of Papers, 1853-1944 1856-1916 (bulk). (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 50414414
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Subjects:
- Education
- African Americans
- Freedmen
- Missionaries
- Quakers
- Quakers
- Quakers
- Quakers
- Women
- Women missionaries
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- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) (as recorded)
- Johns Island (S.C.) (as recorded)
- South Carolina--Aiken (S.C.) (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
